A sports reporter was ejected from an NCAA baseball tournament game for submitting live Internet reports during play.
Brian Bennett, a writer for The (Louisville, Ky.) Courier-Journal, was approached Sunday by an NCAA representative in the bottom of the fifth inning and told that blogging from an NCAA championship event is against NCAA policies, the newspaper said.
Bennett had done live blogging during Louisville's super-regional baseball games against Oklahoma State in the previous two games of the three-game series. The representative revoked Bennett's credential Sunday and asked him to leave the game.
The newspaper's executive editor, Bennie Ivory, called the dispute a First Amendment issue.
"This is part of the evolution of how we present the news to our readers," Ivory said. "It's what we did during the Orange Bowl. It's what we did during the NCAA basketball tournament. It's what we do." ...
The newspaper said the university circulated a memo on the issue from Jeramy Michiaels, the NCAA's manager of broadcasting, before the first super-regional game on Friday. It said blogs are considered a "live representation of the game" and blogs containing action photos or game reports are prohibited until the game is over.
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